Ben, Thanks for the info. Jmeter did what I was looking for.
My specific issue is that I've got a wordpress site that gets 40-120 hits a minute. Unfortunately it is on a windows VM. I think they've managed to throw enough cpu at it to keep it from melting now. I've got some caching happenig in php, but we still get some weird spikes and runaway cgi processes. I'm looking into the IIS winCache for php, but I think it would make it so that the staff can't update pages without having an admin flush the win cache. Thanks again! Al On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Ben Stoutenburgh <[email protected]>wrote: > JMeter[1] and ab[2] were always my go tos to so see when a server would > fall down. I've heard decent things about BlazeMeter[3] but at that point > it's less FOSS and DIY tooling and more buying a professional service. > > Running a load test is helpful and all, but if you want to take that data > to the next step you should also analysis what your web app is spending > it's time on and optimizing that as well. Check out analytics packages > like Linode's Longview Apps[4], New Relic[5] and xhprof[6][7]. > > > [1] https://jmeter.apache.org/ > [2] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html > [3] http://blazemeter.com/ > [4] https://blog.linode.com/2013/11/13/longview-apps/ > [5] http://newrelic.com/ > [6] http://pecl.php.net/package/xhprof > [7] https://github.com/facebook/xhprof > > -- > ben > > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Al Jachimiak <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hey all! >> >> I'm stepping in to the wild world of high traffic websites. >> >> Any favorite tools for load testing sites? Preferably something that >> will give back some meaningful data. >> >> Thanks, >> Al >> >> Sent via mobile device >> _______________________________________________ >> Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org >> https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug >> >> Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College >> Feb 5 - Nginx >> Mar 5 - March Meeting: 11th Anniversary >> Apr 2 - Google App Engine >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Feb 5 - Nginx > Mar 5 - March Meeting: 11th Anniversary > Apr 2 - Google App Engine > >
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